http://www.artrelish.com/2007/09/30/situationalism-a-kinder-gentler-postmodernism/ Art news, directory, and calendar of visual arts events in Atlanta, Georgia Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:36:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://www.artrelish.com/2007/09/30/situationalism-a-kinder-gentler-postmodernism/#comment-2 Jerry Cullum Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:55:07 +0000 http://www.artrelish.com/2007/09/30/situationalism-a-kinder-gentler-postmodernism/#comment-2 Can you really use a term like "situationalism" when it is so likely to be confused with Situationism, which is quite different in its approach to the set of systematically illusionist and delusional relations within which we find ourselves? Granted, the term does return "situation" to "site" and "sensation" to "sensory" rather than synonymous with "spectacular" in the Situationist sense. But it feels like you're in danger of muddling up your idea with the theses of Guy Debord and the Situationists. Can you really use a term like “situationalism” when it is so likely to be confused with Situationism, which is quite different in its approach to the set of systematically illusionist and delusional relations within which we find ourselves? Granted, the term does return “situation” to “site” and “sensation” to “sensory” rather than synonymous with “spectacular” in the Situationist sense. But it feels like you’re in danger of muddling up your idea with the theses of Guy Debord and the Situationists.

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